State v. Williams

Today we are called upon to review the conviction and death sentence of appellant. The court of appeals held that appellant’s assignments of error were not well-taken and that the death penalty statutes are constitutional and were constitutionally applied in the instant case. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the appellate court’s ruling and uphold the death penalty sentence.

Appellant’s first proposition of law urges that he was denied his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury, guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and R.C.…